Green, Harry, painter – Portland – born in Hosaby,
Blekinge, on September 21, 1848. Went to sea in the spring of 1867 and was
shipwrecked at the Cape of Good Hope in the autumn of 1869. He participated in
the [African] diamond rush after the discovery of the diamond fields in 1870. He
stayed for nearly one year and found nine diamonds. He also earned part of his
living as an oarsman, newspaper salesman, etc. In the company of C. J. Nelson he
participated in excursions deep into the interior parts of the country, where
they worked as prospectors for a period of five years, and, among other things,
discovered of one of the famous King Salomon Mines. In December 1875 Mr. Friberg
returned to Sweden, and in May 1876 he went to America, where he visited the
Philadelphia Exhibition and many other places prior to a period of gold digging
in California. In February 1878 he moved to Oregon and lived in Portland until
1891, and then in Hillsdale until 1894. He lived in Los Angeles, California,
until 1897, when he moved to Alaska. He returned to Portland from Alaska in
1898, broken and penniless, but has since recovered. Since June 1884 he has had
his home at no. 845 ½ 1st St., where he owns two buildings. Mr. Green
has been married three times; first in 1879 to Josephine Fredin, who passed away
in October 1881, then in 1883 to Ella Robertson from Sellwood, Oregon, who died
in Los Angeles in October 1894; he remarried again in June 1903. From his first
marriage he has a son, A. V. Green, born June 16, 1880, who is now a partner
with his father in the painting contractor firm A. V. Green & Co.